WWII pacifists worked in the horrifying conditions of state mental hospitals

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Incontinent ward at Philadelphia, PA in 1945.



I worked at Kings Park State Hospital and Rochester State Hospital from 1968 - 1976. I remember seeing wards like this in the Howard Building and the Orleans Building at Rochester State Hospital.

Yes, things were really this bad.